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Bug/Feature: cursor coordinates dont follow date/time style on axis

[Tino W. <ti...@wi...>]

Hi folks,

The following was meant for the sf bugtracker, but
the registration there didnt work, so I post it to
the list:


X11 driver has a cross-hair cursor to easy take points on the plot and read their value.

3rd mouse button can be used to draw the cross and coordinates permanently.

However if for example the xaxis is set to datetime,
the x-value of the crosshair-display is completely
nonsense (its always an fp-value around 2.04842e+08,
which probably represents epoch )

A quick glance into the source does not yet show
me where I can easy fix it myself, but I'm still
trying ;)


Regards
Tino Wildenhain

Re: Bug/Feature: cursor coordinates dont follow date/time style on axis

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> However if for example the xaxis is set to datetime,
> the x-value of the crosshair-display is completely
> nonsense (its always an fp-value around 2.04842e+08,
> which probably represents epoch )

Yes, it is epoch.

> A quick glance into the source does not yet show
> me where I can easy fix it myself, but I'm still
> trying ;)

Hit hotkey '1' to change the mouse format (hit 'h' for help).
Then read 'help mouse' => mouseformat.

Hope this helps.

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Re: Bug/Feature: cursor coordinates dont follow date/time style on axis

[Tino W. <ti...@wi...>]

Petr Mikulik schrieb:
>> However if for example the xaxis is set to datetime,
>> the x-value of the crosshair-display is completely
>> nonsense (its always an fp-value around 2.04842e+08,
>> which probably represents epoch )
> 
> 
> Yes, it is epoch.
> 
>> A quick glance into the source does not yet show
>> me where I can easy fix it myself, but I'm still
>> trying ;)
> 
> 
> Hit hotkey '1' to change the mouse format (hit 'h' for help).
> Then read 'help mouse' => mouseformat.
> 
Ah great! Thats why I saw code to format like this
in the sources ;) Its hard to find if you dont know
where to look, but now :-)

Thx!
Tino

Re: Bug/Feature: cursor coordinates dont follow date/time style on axis

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> Hit hotkey '1' to change the mouse format (hit 'h' for help).
>> Then read 'help mouse' => mouseformat.
>> 
> Ah great! Thats why I saw code to format like this
> in the sources ;) Its hard to find if you dont know
> where to look, but now :-)

If you think it needs a change into docs, into FAQ, ... please contribute.

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